End segregation in jails, NDP critic says
“A new government bill that the Liberals claim will end the use of solitary confinement in federal prisons should prompt action to end similar practices in provincial jails, the provincial NDP says.
Bill C-83, which was introduced earlier this week, would put a halt on disciplinary and administrative segregation as it currently exists. Instead, inmates who require segregation for safety reasons would be transferred to “structured intervention units” while maintaining access to programming and health care. The bill would also ensure prisoners transferred to these structured intervention units are offered the opportunity to spend four hours a day outside their cell, and a minimum of two of those hours would include human interaction…”